MacPorts 1.7.1 now available
The MacPorts Project is proud to announce the release of version 1.7.1. This is a bugfix release with small changes only.
Notable changes for end users:
- port upgrade will no longer act on ports which are not installed
Notable changes for port authors:
- port lint no longer requires
master_sites
if the port does not have any distfiles ${applications_dir}
and${frameworks_dir}
are automatically created in the destrootconfigure.compiler
supports apple-gcc-4.2- New
use_7z yes
port option to allow distfiles in 7z format
If you already have MacPorts installed, the preferred method for updating is to run:
sudo port selfupdate
For new installs, there are also package installers in disk images available for 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 (with the latter two being universal builds). The source is available as tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2 in the same directory and it is also available from the subversion tag.
You can also read the email announcement.